Black History Month has a very important place in our history. It is the month where we celebrate the contributions of many heroes who gained rights for their race. A period of time when these individuals stood up for what they believed was right, they stood up during the time of racial segregation.
Racial segregation is the separation of people of different races due to a law. Examples included separate eating areas at a restaurant, separate fountains, separate washrooms, separate schools, separate sitting areas in a bus, at a hotel and separate rules for renting or purchasing a home. In America, segregation began in 1896, due to the Supreme Court which authorized legal separation between the two races black and white. However, the law was overruled because of the decisions by the case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
This case was won by a lawyer named Thurgood Marshall. At the period of time, when there was no equality for black people, Marshall realized that one of the leading ways to establish change was through …show more content…
Board of Education case which desegregated schools in America, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) then made an attempt to register black students in a formerly all-white school throughout the South of America. Virgil Blossom, the Superintendent of Schools, sent a plan to the Little Rock School Board on May 24, 1955, of combining the races, black and white in the same school, which the board in the agreement had approved. By 1957, the NAACP had registered nine black students named Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Pattillo Beals to attend Little Rock Central High, who were selected on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance. On September 4, 1957, this group of students who were together named the “Little Rock Nine” had attended school
Racial segregation is the separation of people of different races due to a law. Examples included separate eating areas at a restaurant, separate fountains, separate washrooms, separate schools, separate sitting areas in a bus, at a hotel and separate rules for renting or purchasing a home. In America, segregation began in 1896, due to the Supreme Court which authorized legal separation between the two races black and white. However, the law was overruled because of the decisions by the case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
This case was won by a lawyer named Thurgood Marshall. At the period of time, when there was no equality for black people, Marshall realized that one of the leading ways to establish change was through …show more content…
Board of Education case which desegregated schools in America, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) then made an attempt to register black students in a formerly all-white school throughout the South of America. Virgil Blossom, the Superintendent of Schools, sent a plan to the Little Rock School Board on May 24, 1955, of combining the races, black and white in the same school, which the board in the agreement had approved. By 1957, the NAACP had registered nine black students named Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Pattillo Beals to attend Little Rock Central High, who were selected on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance. On September 4, 1957, this group of students who were together named the “Little Rock Nine” had attended school